The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-20

The director of the mint reports that
the production Of gold in the United
States during the year 1896 exceeded that
of any previous year since 1880, and al
most equaled the production Of that
year. 1t amounted to $35, ,O0O,0 900 in 1895
against S3l, 800, 900 in 1885, an increase OF
over S3,000,000. The production Of silver,
as nearly as can be ascertained, was 49,
S95, $50. The amount of gold bullion i'm
ported into the United States es, was wa $l7,-
947, ,5lS and the exports S27, 1852, ,637. The
importations were made almost exclus-
lively since August last. There was also
imported gold coin of the value of $23,-
81 1858, and gold coin was exported to the
value of $l3,393, 1863. The total exports OF
gold bullion and coin were Sal ,2Sl ,N6.
In 1869 the criminal population Of Great
Britain held the proportion off one to every
1853 inhabitants. This proportion has
been steadily reduced, until it amounted
to only one in 5000 inhabitants in 1885.
The United States in 1850 had better
criminal record than Great Britain has
ever been able show. In that year there
was only one criminal in 3, 3,442 inhabi-
tants. But ever since 1850 the rate has
been rising. In 1860 it was one in 1,647;
in 1870 one in 1,02l; in 1880 one in S37.
Taking this to be the present proportion,
il is not very satisfactory to know that
every S37 person one meets is criminal.
The word boom, used in connection
with religious matters, CRATES harshly on
our ear ;. and we do not hesitate to say
that as ''booms" go we do not desire to
see them in our churches. Blooms" col
lapse, and then paralysis sets in. We
have seen churches that were "boomed,"
as the saying goes, and when the collapse
oo1o yrooQnfpH n.
stead of "boom" let us have revival
of true piety and more thorough conse-
Grafton to God.-Baptist Courier.
At the present time, in some parts of
the State of Maine, the snow is eleven
feet deep in the roads, and one stage
route thirty-fve miles in length has
been closed up for two weeks. Within
short distance of Rutland, VT, there is
maple sugar orchard in which the snow
is sixteen feet deep, and the owner. OF the
orchard does not propose to make any
sugar this spring.
A thousand journeyman carpenters
and joners at Berlin have petitioned the
Government to protect them from Sun.
day labor. The glass works directors at
Dresden have dismissed about thous-
and men, as they refused to work on
Sundays.
Pere Hyacinthe is making arrange
ments to preach III the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, in the Avenue Alma,
Paris. It is expected that the event will
mark the final severance of his connec-
ton with the Popish Church.
A special from st. Johns, N. F., says:
The budget presented March 81, shows
deficit Of three-fourths of a million OF
dollars, the largest portion Of which was
spent in relief works to keep the people
from starving this winter.
The Presbyterians have the largest
evangelical church in Mexico, situated in
Zacatecas. It has over nine hundred
members. They have bought a fine
Catholic church, and are advancing
rapidly.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Of New
York City, has started a salvation move
ment for the wholesale dry-goods Johbers
and their clerks. The meetings are held
at noon, in the Church Of the Strangers.
At the election, April 4, in CINCINNATI,
Ohio, for mayor and aldermen, r. steven
son. the Labor candidate, was elected py
a majority of ten votes over poth the
Democrat and Republican candidates.
One of the most munificent recent gltts
to churches is that of the RockalelIer
brothers, John ~. anu w Imam i-T'o,'vo
in ALTO tho Tabernacle Baptist church
of New York.
Crime must be running rampant in
this land. 1t is said that in 1850 there
we're 1000 prisoners in all our prisons;
in 1850 there were SO, 900, and in 1886 there
were 10000.
Within the last twenty years Mr..
George w. Childs, Of Philadelphia, has
presented over two hundred large and
valuable Bibles to churches, schools, and
societies.
The people of Burlington, Vermont
were quite alarmed, April 10, 2.3O p. NJ,
by two earthquake shocks. The second
shock 10 minutes after the first, was very
heavy.
In response to circular asking their
views on the subject, the Irish Wesleyan
ministers, it is said, with six exceptions,
replied that they were opposed to home
rule.
About four thousand emigrants that
had accumulated at Castle Garden, New
York, started westward Sunday, April ).
The Bank of Florence haa received it's
commission from the Secretary OF state
! to commence business.